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[_Simon_]

Pretty spot on. What everyone's sayin. Hm. Just seems like a wasteful post from me hmm...

 

[Xue Sheng]

Without "bacon" a BLT would be nonexistent, but.... I digress.

that's true..... I can't argue that

 

[Steve]

Without "bacon" a BLT would be nonexistent, but.... I digress.

Nothing wrong with a good tomato sandwich in my book.

 

[Steve]

Pretty spot on. What everyone's sayin. Hm. Just seems like a wasteful post from me hmm...

Totally.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

that's true..... I can't argue that

I knew you would start to come around.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Nothing wrong with a good tomato sandwich in my book.

Bah! You know the bacon is the main affair! Sure I’ve eaten mustard packets for dinner but they are a lot better with a frank.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I knew you would start to come around.

No, still don't like bacon..... just acknowledged the fact that you can't have a BLT without bacon

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

No, still don't like bacon..... just acknowledged the fact that you can't have a BLT without bacon

Baby steps. We will get you there!

 

[Steve]

Baby steps. We will get you there!

For sure.

 

[_Simon_]

For sure.

I agree. An emoji reaction wouldn't have been enough to convey that so... here we are.

 

[Tigerwarrior]

I agree. An emoji reaction wouldn't have been enough to convey that so... here we are.

Totally

 

[_Simon_]

 

[Gyakuto]

I write down my vivid dreams to recollect at a later date and they invariably don’t seem to come from my mind but are beamed in from somewhere else. About four or five years ago I heard this phrase in one of my dreams,

‘Now you have learned how to kill, you must learn how not to kill.’

It seemed to be in the context of teaching swordsmanship but I’m not sure if I said it or it was said to me.

Last night, this phrase was extrapolated upon in an early morning dream/hypnagogic state in which I was saying it to someone else to whom I was trying to impart a bit of spirituality-

Now one has learned to kill,
One should endeavour to preserve life.

Now one has learned to be menacing,
One should endeavour to be gentle.

Now one has learned to use guile,
One should endeavour to cultivate integrity.

I’ve Googled it and it does seem to be novel and from my mind but it still feels they are not my words. I really like it, though and it’s something I might, in future, internally recite before training…’A Swordsman’s Precept’.

Endeavour to preserve life, be gentle, cultivate integrity. Not a bad precept to live by.

 

[Xue Sheng]

sunny, windy and chilly today.... I like it

 

[Steve]

I agree. An emoji reaction wouldn't have been enough to convey that so... here we are.

One might presume I’m just padding the thread with meaningless posts. And they would be correct.

 

[jks9199]

Well, folks, we seem to have a winner. Steve was the last poster when I noticed we'd crossed 10,000 posts. Honorable Mention goes to Prince_Alarming who had post 10,001.